Prince

Prince used a Moog Minimoog on For You and Prince. It is mentioned in the credits to For You.

Prince used a Dynacord ADD One on the Lovesexy album. It was triggered by the outputs of a Linn LM-1.

Prince used a Roland TR-808 on the song Da Da Da from the album Emancipation.

Prince used a Roland TR-606 on the song Velvet Kitty Kat from the Purple Rain Deluxe edition.

Prince used the Linn LinnDrum on one song - Elephants and Flowers from Graffiti Bridge. According to Susan Rogers, he preferred his Linn LM-1 as it allowed more options for tuning and signal processing. He used a rented LinnDrum when his LM-1s were unavailable.

Earlier in his career (I believe) he was playing through Soldano SLO-100 heads and he has also been seen playing Orange AD140HTC heads with Orange 412 cabinets.

When he picks up a bass onstage, he favors his white Warwick Thumb "Eye Bass" (so named because of the eye painted on the front), a white fretless Warwick Thumb, or his custom Lakland with a fist-shaped headstock. Other basses include an old Guild Pilot and a gold-colored Ibanez Soundgear.

According to this site Prince used this piece of equipment.

According to Uberproaudio, Prince used the Rane ME 30 equalizer as part of his studio recording gear.

Prince is seen with the Sandberg California PM4 bass guitar in an Instagram post by mikedirnt, celebrating his influence with the hashtag #VivaPrince.

A photo from Whatson shows Prince using the Roland Jupiter-80 76-Key Synthesizer during a performance in Dubai.

time stamped video @ 4:22min mark you can see the rack at Princes Paisley Park. You can see the AMS stuffs closest to the camera.

Again, you can see the rack at Prince's Paisly Park at the 4:22min mark. The video is a time stamped link. You can see the AMS gear as they pan and is closest to the camera.

Video shows Prince's 2 Studer A-800 at Paisly Park at the 4min 27sec mark.

Picture of Prince's Studer A-800 MKIII 8 Track emblazoned with Prince's "name/symbol" right below the meters as well as "Paisly Park Studios T-8". An additional photo can be seen here with an even larger version of Prince's "name/symbol"

http://www.historyofrecording.com/images/Studer_A800_8-Track_Paisley_Park_Studios_with_Prince.jpg

Quote from SSL: "Nestling amongst VAT recepits and deserted spiders webs in our filing cabinets we found a folder titled “Paisley Park”, and we just couldn’t resist a peek. In the folder were all of the details, specs, and designs for the 2 consoles that we have sold Prince – one a SL6000E with 48 mono channels and 8 stereo channels (in 1985), and the other an 80 input SL8000G(in 1993)."

You can just spot a pair of the EQP-1A's in the rack in the video at 4:22 at Prince's Paisly Park.

In a personal studio photo featured in W Magazine, Prince is seen with the Akai S3200XL, highlighting his use of this audio sampler.

In a photo taken at Paisley Park, Prince is seen with the E-mu Vintage Keys sound module in his personal studio, as featured in Wmagazine.

Prince is seen using the Korg Triton 61-key Music Workstation at Paisley Park, as shown in the provided image.

Dr. Fink was auctioning off this MemoryMoog and he said he played it on the Purple Rain Tour.

An excerpt from an interview from Dr. Fink and Rosie Gaines. Fink: “ The following year, the crew people came up and said, "We can't haul this big Yamaha grand around anymore. Besides, it's totally useless, since you don't even need the soundboard anymore." So I said, "Why don't you have a fake piano shell built, and mount a [Yamaha] KX88 in it?" That’s what they did, and they strengthened the top so that Prince could get up and do his stuff on top of it. Gaines: I play that piano too, on "A Song for You," the old Donny Hathaway song, which I do by myself”.

Excerpt from an interview with Dr. Fink and Rosie Gaines “ What other keyboards do you play in the show? Gaines: I only use that piano and a D-50 onstage, although there’s about eight racks behind me, with [Korg] M1Rs and other stuff”.

An excerpt from a interview by Dr Fink and Rosie Gaines “ What instruments were you playing then? Fink: By the time I joined him, my peronal setup was just a Minimoog, a Rhodes, a Farfisa VIP 345 with a Leslie speaker cabinet, and a Freeman string synthesizer. At that same time, he had all this gear he bought with money from his record deal, so I integrated what I had with what he had. I got rid of the Freeman and went to an ARP String Ensemble, and the old Oberheim Four-Voices and S.E.M. modules. I kept the Minimoog, and added a [Hohner] Clavinet and an ARP Pro-Soloist... a lot of stuff! It was a Rick Wakeman kind of setup. Then, as time went on, I pared things down, and every year kept updating as things changed”.

From Guitar Player Magazine

What guitars are you playing on the Musicology tour?

I’m using a Gretsch 6120N New Nashville, a Hamer Monaco III, and a Taylor acoustic. I run the electrics though a Genz-Benz El Diablo amp with a Genz-Benz 2x12 cabinet, and my onstage effects consist of Line 6 DS-4 and DM-4 pedals, a Fulltone Fat Boost overdrive, an EBS BassIQ envelope filter, and a Dunlop Cry Baby 535.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-CwfTXN4fE

Spotted at 6:04.

Prince played an ARP Omni-2 on Dirty Mind, Controversy, 1999 and Purple Rain.

In an interview featured on prince.org, a photo from Prince's storage room reveals an E-mu Emax SE synthesizer on display. While it's known that Dr. Fink transferred Fairlight samples to the Emax II, there's speculation about the possibility of similar samples being placed in this Emax SE, although this is not confirmed.

A photo of Lisa Coleman using the keyboard was taken during Prince and The Revolution were rehearsing it can also be spotted during the 1999 tour in the year 1982. This keyboard was owned by Prince and used on his albums.

Prince used an Oberheim 4 Voice on For You and Prince. It is mentioned in the liner notes to For You.